Gjensidige acquires Nykredit Forsikring - forms strategic alliance with Nykredit

• Nykredit and Gjensidige Forsikring form a long-term strategic alliance in the
insurance area 

• Nykredit is selling Nykredit Forsikring A/S to Gjensidige at a price of DKK
2.5bn, of which goodwill amounts to about DKK 1.5bn.

• The parties have concluded a distribution agreement according to which
Nykredit will continue to sell non-life insurance products and services to
retail customers under the Nykredit brand and to commercial, including
agricultural, customers under the Gjensidige brand. 

The Danish financial services provider Nykredit and the Nordic insurance group
Gjensidige have entered into a long-term strategic alliance in the non-life
insurance area resulting in close cooperation on the sale and distribution of
insurance products and services in the Danish market in the coming years. 

Under the agreement, the Nykredit Group sells Nykredit Forsikring A/S to
Gjensidige. The parties also enter into a distribution agreement according to
which Nykredit continues to supply and sell insurance products and services to
its customers with Gjensidige as supplier. Retail customers will continue to be
served under the Nykredit brand, whereas commercial - including agricultural -
customers will be served under the Gjensidige brand. 

Nykredit's current 230,000 insurance customers as well as its bank and mortgage
customers will in future enjoy a wider product range as well as the economies
of scale and synergies inherent in the strategic alliance. 
 
Gjensidige is the fourth largest Nordic and Norway's largest non-life insurance
company. Gjensidige entered the Danish market in 2006 through the acquisition
of Fair Forsikring and a year later KommuneForsikring. Today Gjensidige
commands a market share of 3%. The acquisition of Nykredit Forsikring A/S
increases Gjensidige's total market share in Denmark to 6% and thus strengthens
Gjensidige's strategic presence in Denmark significantly. Furthermore, the
alliance with Nykredit provides Gjensidige with a sizeable sales channel to
Nykredit's more than 500,000 bank and mortgage customers. 
 
The new insurance alliance underpins Nykredit's growth ambition as a
broad-based financial services business with banking and mortgage lending as
core business activities. 

The change of ownership of Nykredit Forsikring A/S will not influence the
current insurance business with customers, which will continue unchanged. 

Helge Leiro Baastad, CEO of Gjensidige, comments on the agreement with Nykredit:

- We aim to be a strong player in the Danish market, and right now we focus on
strategic acquisitions. Nykredit Forsikring A/S is a fantastic opportunity, not
least due to the composition of its portfolio, its earnings trend and the
distribution network we get access to. This acquisition brings us even more
competencies and creates the energy necessary for us to offer our customers
even better insurance products at reasonable prices. In addition, I believe
that the strategic alliance holds great potential in terms of distribution, not
least thanks to the Nykredit Group's marked growth strategy in the banking
area. 

Peter Engberg Jensen, Group Chief Executive of Nykredit, has the following
comments on the strategic alliance: 

- The new alliance provides Nykredit with a business partner whose core
competency is non-life insurance, and as a result we obtain access to an
insurance product range that is even more attractive than the one we offer
today. Insurance activities are complex structures, and as Nykredit is
constantly striving to streamline its operation, the long-term strategic
alliance with Gjensidige offers an opportunity to simplify the organisation
while retaining insurance products and services for the benefit of our
customers. 

The transaction is subject to the approval of the Danish and Norwegian
financial supervisory authorities. 

Price
The agreed price is DKK 2.5bn, of which goodwill accounts for about DKK 1.5bn.
Nykredit Forsikring's equity amounts to DKK 1bn after distribution of DKK 500m
dividend as adopted at Nykredit Forsikring A/S's Annual General Meeting on 23
February 2010. 


Advisers:
Danske Markets is acting as financial adviser to Nykredit.

Gorrissen Federspiel is acting as legal adviser to Nykredit.

FIH PARTNERS is acting as financial adviser to Gjensidige.

Kromann Reumert is acting as legal adviser to Gjensidige.


Press conference today
Nykredit and Gjensidige are holding a press conference today at 11:00 at
Nykredit's headquarters, Kalvebod Brygge 1-3, DK-1780 Copenhagen V. 

To attend the press conference, please contact Hanne Westermann at
hwk@nykredit.dk or tel +45 44 55 14 71. 

Contacts
Gjensidige: Helge Leiro Baastad, CEO, or Øystein Thoresen, Head of 
Communication, tel +47 95 23 33 82.

Nykredit: Peter Engberg Jensen, Group Chief Executive, or Nels Petersen,
Head of Corporate Communications, tel +45 44 55 14 70 or +45 20 22 22 72.


Facts about the contracting parties

Nykredit Forsikring A/S
The Nykredit Group set up insurance activities in 1998 and acquired Østifterne
Forsikring in 1999. Nykredit For¬sikring A/S's premium income has grown
significantly ever since, and its portfolio today amounts to about DKK 1.4bn
from a total of 230,000 customers, of which 211,000 are retail and 19,000
commercial customers. Nykredit Forsikring A/S's current market share is 3%. 

In 2009 Nykredit Forsikring A/S recorded a profit of DKK 245m after tax and a
combined ratio of 86. 

Nykredit Forsikring A/S has a staff of about 380. 320 will be transferred to
Gjensidige, while 60 retail insurance agents will be retained in the Nykredit
Group, attached to the nationwide centre structure. 

Gjensidige
Gjensidige Forsikring is the fourth largest Nordic and Norway's largest
non-life insurance company with a market share of 29%. 

Gjensidige has insurance activities in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia
and Lithuania, and the company recorded net premium income of NOK 16.2bn in
2009. The group has a staff of 3,600 in Scandinavia and the Baltic states. 

Gjensidige entered the Danish market in 1996 through the acquisition of Fair
Forsikring and a year later KommuneForsikring. The activities are now all
carried out under the name of Gjensidige. The company has a staff of 250 in
Denmark and a market share of about 3% before the acquisition of Nykredit
Forsikring A/S. 

Nykredit
The Nykredit Group is one of Denmark's leading financial services groups with
activities ranging from banking, mortgage lending and insurance to pension and
estate agency business. The principal business areas are banking with a total
market share of 5% and mortgage lending with a total market share of 41%. Total
bank and mortgage lending amounts to DKK 1,046bn. 

The Group has more than 1.1m customers (including Totalkredit) and a staff of
4,600.